Thursday, April 5, 1900

On 5th Charley made garden and I hauled hay.

In 1980, Jesse’s daughter Jessie wrote of James Bench’s garden:

Grand dad & boys grew a large garden on the opposite side of the tracks – just walked under
end of the bridge. They just raised everything & where the new Hiway (U.S. 36) is now – that
was a large apple orchard.